The Perfect Storm--Super Bowl meets Boat Show
Hello again gentle reader...just to remind you of our last confab, I was saying what a shame it was so many things are happening at once here on the Beach...even in slow times there's something to do here, so by necessity something has to go....
Although the crowds they attract are vastly different, both the Supe and the BS are hotel-fillers, restaurant-crowders, street-cloggers...to have the Hype Bowl come in then leave while the Yacht people are trying to set up is a challenge, to say the least. With that in mind let's
GET AROUND the week of Tues 30 through next Monday....the key thing is to not approach South Beach from the 79th Street Causeway...construction at 63rd and Collins/Indian Creek have created a traffic nightmare and caused the Beachbum to be late for work innumerable times (that's my story and I'm sticking to it). By all means if you're driving take 195 or 395: attack the soft underbelly of South Beach, and try to keep as far south as you can. If you can find a parking spot grab it and walk or bus or cab where you want to go....this advice changes from week to week so keep up to the minute with the Beachbum and hotelsbycity...sometimes it's to your advantage to advance from the North, but not this weekend.
Ocean Drive (deco drive) (the place where most of the stuff happens) will be closed to vehicular traffic from this Thursday through late Sunday night.
DINNER: The first day you get here try to go to the place you most want to eat. This Big Events burn through supplies and our Billion Dollar Sandbar gets so crowd the Sysco trucks can't even drop the chicken wings needed to sustain such a mass gathering. If you're a stud you'll be partying with Shaq at Mansion on Thursday, Snoop Dogg on Friday, and making the scene at the free Jay-Z song-and-dance to kick off the Most important Sporting Thingie Ever. If you're like me, you'll be looking for a small oasis of calm. The upper balcony of Wet Willies at 7th and Ocean sounds good...
In our last post we said their would be prime celebrity-watching at the Heat games...which is still true==but they are Thursday and Saturday nights, and not tonight, as was written. Don't worry: the staffer responsible was dismissed, his personal belongings were placed in a plain brown cardboard box, and a grim secuity guard marched him out the front door...
